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Designer of the Gagarin spaceship Viktor Blagov died

4/8/2019, 3:00:44 PM

Victor Blagov, the designer of the Vostok spacecraft, in which Yury Gagarin made his first flight into space in 1961, died at the age of 84.


It is reported by the Rocket and Space Corporation "Energy".

“Viktor Dmitrievich Blagov passed away on April 8, 2019 ... He was one of the leaders of the flights of the Salyut orbital space stations and the Mir orbital complex,” the text says.

It is noted that for his high professionalism, Blagov was awarded, among other things, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, and was marked by numerous awards from Roskosmos and RSC Energia.

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